My work is rooted in a playful exploration of process and materials. I mess about until something happens that resonates, draws me in. An interrogation might be inspired by an environment, a life event, a childhood memory. Regardless of the origin, what all beginnings share is that they evoke a compelling emotional and intellectual response.

Ideas are evolved through a process of iterative development in whatever medium chosen; paint, ceramics, metal and moving image. Most recently, the final pieces are constructed exclusively from found objects.

The audience experience is central to my artistic practice. My work is designed to arrest the viewer’s attention as if they’re arriving in a foreign land. In this immersive space, spectators are invited to engage in interpretation, to seek an understanding. I’m playing with the idea that when we perceive a familiar object, much of what we see is shaped by our past experience of the thing.  Through my art, I seek to challenge habitual perception, opening up a fresh awareness of the world, challenging us to re-assess, re-evaluate, re-live. 

Thérèse, an Irish born artist, lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. She studied fine art at Leeds Beckett University.

Establishing an artistic practice in 2017, Thérèse has exhibited her work in two solo exhibitions, Unfixed (2022) and Show Face(2019).  She has taken part in two online group exhibitions with World of Co, Sophia, Bulgaria; tomfoolery (2021) and accommodate (2020). Temporary site specific works, Flimsy (2024), Salvage (2023) and Line (2022) were installed, exhibited and dismantled in India, Morocco and Finland. She has work in The Glasgow Gallery of Photography Women in Photography Exhibition 2024 and John Muir Trust Creative Freedom Exhibition 2024.

She is a successful, freelance film editor, cutting content for television transmission.   She promotes the craft of editing by facilitating training courses.